After finishing the meeting, Kyojuro returned home and saw his father spanking in front of Giyuu and Senjuro who was still in Giyuu's arms. Kyojuro suspected that Giyuu wouldn't let go of him after his father was done (see Chapter 5).
As soon as Giyuu saw Kyojuro coming, he started letting go of Senjuro as he felt the puppy was safe and he fell asleep from fatigue. When Kyojuro saw that Giyuu had fallen asleep, he rushed to his side worried. He sighed in relief when he saw that Giyuu was just asleep.
Senjuro revealed to him that Giyuu had told him that he could make his heat bearable by regulating the water in his body with his breath. To prevent him from being weak at the worst times. And that their father seemed to know Giyuu and Giyuu their family.
Kyojuro now understood why Giyuu was lucid despite his warmth and teased that their father knew Giyuu. He cast a questioning look at the Rengoku leader who said to go and discuss this in the kitchen over a cup of tea.
After Kyojuro and Senjuro put Giyuu in a safe room so he can finally rest (even though he's been sleeping for 400 years). They went to the kitchen to talk with their father. He sat drinking tea and invited them to sit down.
First he apologized for his behavior towards them and for treating them badly. When Giyuu yelled at him about his behavior and conduct, he thought he saw his late wife Ruka in front of him, telling him to be there for his sons. As soon as Kyojuro asked him why he knew Giyuu, the father put on the table in front of them a drawing with a writing on it. When Kyojuro looked at the picture and read the words his lips quivered.
In this image was Giyuu as a child with his mother Mizu Tomioka!
Kyojuro: How…?
Shinjuro heaved a long sigh and said, Here is our family's biggest secret my sons. Passed on to the heads of our family.
With one voice the brothers: The secret of our family?
Shinjuro: Yes, let me tell you why I know Giyuu exists.
The brothers nodded and listened to their father's story.
It all started in the Sengoku period when their ancestor, worried by the disappearance of his friend Mizu Tomioka for at least 5 years, decided to go looking for him and finally managed to find him in front of a house with the creator of the breaths who was also a omega . But what he saw next utterly amazed him. He now saw a child who must have been 4 years old who looked like Mizu running towards Mizu and calling him mom and Mizu hugging him smiling and whispering a: My angel.
Our ancestor had come out of his hiding place to ask for an explanation, Yoriichi begged him to go inside with Mizu and the child to chat over a cup of tea. When he listened to Mizu's story, he took him in his arms to apologize for not being able to protect him and he looked at the child named Giyuu who was sleeping on Mizu's lap with a benevolent look because he knew that this child was for nothing. Mizu thanked him for not attacking her son and revealed to him that the Kamados were aware of Giyuu's existence but they preferred to keep the secret until their graves and not reveal it to their descendants.
He learned to know Giyuu who for him was a child like the others and not a monster like his father. He made the decision to reveal that to the future head of his family his secret for Giyuu is always allies when he finds himself alone.
Shinjuro finished his story and showed his sons at least 5 books that told of their ancestor's past times with Giyuu as an uncle. And asked them to take care of Giyuu as the first Flame Pillar asked them.
Kyojuro replied to his father that he would take care of Giyuu even if he had to die.
Shinjuro: Well I think I might have grandchildren, he said smiling and winking at Kyojuro.
Kyojuro immediately blushed as his father had noticed that he had fallen in love with Giyuu.
Senjuro put his hands to his mouth when he understood what his father meant! His older brother had a crush on Giyuu!
Unfortunately it was not the only one.
Meanwhile Giyuu was sleeping peacefully unaware that he had won the hearts of several alphas since the meeting.
And Kyojuro will have to fight to win the heart of his beloved and against the latter's father who will ensure that no one touches his son.
